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St Gall's Gaelic Athletic Club is a sports club based in
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County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...
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. It competes in the Antrim leagues and championships of the
Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...
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Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...
and ladies' Gaelic football.


Football

In 2010, they won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, their first title by defeating Kilmurry Ibrickane of
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in the final at
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. Lenny Harbinson, who went on to manage Antrim, was manager of St Gall's at the time.


Notable players


Senior inter-county players


Men's Gaelic football

; Antrim * CJ McGourty * Kevin McGourty Paul Walsh ;
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* Rory Gallagher ;
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* Rory Gallagher


Hurling

; Antrim * CJ McGourty


Ladies' Gaelic football

; Antrim *
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Others

; netball internationals *
Michelle Drayne Michelle Drayne (born 22 September 1988) is a Northern Ireland netball international and a former Antrim ladies' Gaelic footballer. She represented Northern Ireland at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 Netball World Cup. She ...


Football Titles

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Antrim Senior Football Championship The Antrim Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Antrim GAA. The winners of the championship represent Antrim in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship ...
(19) ** 1933, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 * Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (3) ** 1982, 2005, 2009 * All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1) ** 2010


Hurling Titles

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Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship The Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition, organised by Antrim GAA. Clooney Gaels from Ahogill are the title holders (2022). Honours The winners of the Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship progress to th ...
(3) ** 1997, 2009, 2019 *
Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship The Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Ulster GAA Hurling Intermediate Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association and ...
(2) ** 2009, 2019 *
All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Club Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the second highest inter-county ...
** Runners-up 2010


Ladies' Football Titles

* Antrim Senior Ladies Football Championship (1) ** 2011 * Ulster Intermediate Ladies Football Championship (1) ** 2010 * Antrim Intermediate Ladies Football Championship (1) ** 2010


References


External links


St Gall's club website

Antrim GAA website
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